Classroom-Based Language Assessment

Dina Tsagari is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TEFL at the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus.Ildikó Csépes is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TEFL at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen (Hungary). They have both taught, researched and published extensively in the field of language testing and assessment.

• Contents: Pauline Rea-Dickins: Foreword. Formative Assessment: Scoping the Horizons – Matthew E. Poehner/Rumia Ableeva: Dynamic Assessment and Learner Engagement in the Activity of Development – Liz Hamp-Lyons/Nicole Tavares: Interactive Assessment - A Dialogic and Collaborative Approach to Assessing Learners’ Oral Language – Janna Fox/Peggy Hartwick: Taking a Diagnostic Turn: Reinventing the Portfolio in EAP Classrooms – Christine Doe: The Integration of Diagnostic Assessment into Classroom Instruction – Yuko Goto Butler/Wei Zeng: The Roles that Teachers Play in Paired-assessments for Young Learners – Sehnaz Sahinkarakas/Kagan Buyukkarci: Teachers’ Perceptional Changes on Formative Assessment Practices – Barbara Blair/Eli Moe/Bente Barsnes: Impact of Norwegian Government Assessment Policies on ESL Classroom Practices – Mirja Tarnanen/Ari Huhta: Foreign Language Assessment and Feedback Practices in Finland – Jo Lewkowicz/Elżbieta Zawadowska-Kittel: Classroom-based Assessment: the Polish Experience – Dina Tsagari: Investigating the ‘Assessment Literacy’ of EFL State School Teachers in Greece – Liying Cheng: Supporting Student Learning: Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning.